ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Collon, Kate Chopin, Unreliable Narrator
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Narrative forms: narrative combines discourse (how it is told by whom to whom) and story (content of what is told) Story (geschichte, events are presented) and plot (handlungsstruktur, provides the logical connection between them: oral story telling is the origin of narrative texts. Introduce the story by mentioning what it is about: tells who takes part at which place and time, talks about the development (of a conflict) Which position does the narrator have (inside/outside the world of the story?) How does he speak about characters/events: plot: logical structure connecting events, main plot vs. sub-plot, for instance: non-chronological story-telling with flashbacks and foreshadowing, modes of presentation, explanatory method = telling. Direct characterization: narrator/ character tells the audience: dramatic method = showing. Steal-method: speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, looks. > not by being told but by being showed. Narrative situations: first-person narrator (ich-erz hler, narrating i (erz hlendes ich, experiencing i (erlebendes ich)
